Stelis variola Luer & R.Escobar
, Harvard Pap. Bot. 22(2): 110 (2017).
External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77177984-1
- Publication
- Harvard Papers in Botany. Cambridge, MA
- Collation
- 22(2): 110
- Date of Publication
- 31 Dec 2017
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- C.Luer, J.Luer & R.Escobar 6825
- Locality
- Norte de Santander, Páramo de Jurisdicciones, 2600 m
- Collection Date
- 10 Feb 1982
- Type Herbaria
- holotype SEL
- Distribution Of Types
- Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
- Type Remarks
- fl. in cult. at Selby Gardens 81-2647, from specimen collected on 10 Nov 1981
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.3100/hpib.v22iss2.2017.n2 the specific epithet is named for smallpox, the viral disease manifested by multiple, irregular, cutaneous lesions, referring to the unidentified substance seen in the sepals